Bottle



(No Model.)

P. QUINN.-Jr. & R. G. GIESIOKE.

BOTTLE.

Patented N0v.'2, 1897.

m: NORfllS-PETCRS co. maraumo. wnsuma'rou o c UNITE-D STATES PATENT anion PATRICK QUINN, JR., AND ROBERT C. GIESICKE, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

- BOTTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,058, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed March 16, 1897. Serial No. 627,789! (N0 model.)

T 0 all whom, it natty concern.-

Be it known that we, PATRICK QUINN, J r., and ROBERT C. GIESICKE, citizens of the United States, residing at the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Bottles, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specification, in which Figure l is a sectional View through a finished bottle embodying our improvement. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing a cork in the mouth of the bottle and the locking devices for the cork in position. Fig. 3 is a side elevational view of a portion of the bottle. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view through the beaded portion of the neck of the bottle, as shown in Fig. 3.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in bottles, and more particularly to cork-locking devices which are attached to and form a part of the bottle as made.

The invention consists in a bottle having loops or fastening devices formed integral therewith at a point or points some distance below the mouth, so as to leave a clear unoccupied space for the finishing-tool, to which loops or fastening devices are secured wires or other suitable means adapted to extend over the'cork to lock the cork in position.

In the drawings, A indicates the neck of an ordinary bottle.

13 indicates a twisted wire which originally confined a bead b in its rebent end. In the manufacture of our improved bottle these wires are suspended in the neck of the mold in such manner that the beads on their ends will be located at diametrically opposite points in the neck of the mold. When the bottle is blown in the mold, the molten glass will force these beads and wires against the mold and the molten glass will fuse with the beads in the eyes of the wires. The neck of the bottle above the beads will be grooved by the wire, but the wire will not be embedded in the glass nor will the glass fill up the opening in the beads. The glass will, however, leave a slight cavity or pocket around the beads which is advantageous in that the eyes on the ends of the wires will be permitted to freely move. When the bottle is removed from the mold, the wires are turned down out of the way and the mouth and neck finished with the ordi nary tool usuallyemployed for such purpose.

The finished bottle will be substantially as shown in Fig. l, where the beads b have been fused with the bottle and are of elongated shape, standing in line with the vertical axis of the neck, so that the pressure on the wires will be efiectually resisted and a comparatively light lateral pressure will break the beads. around the bead, while the wire has formed a groove extending toward the mouth of the bottle. The outer peripheral surfaces of the beads are substantially flush with the peripheral surface of the neck of the bottle. When the contents are introduced into thebottle and the bottle corked, these wires B are brought up over the mouth and twisted together, as shown in Fig. 2, the twisted ends being sealed, if desired. After the cork is locked in position and wires drawn taut the projecting portions of the beads 19 are preferably slightly moistened with hydrofluoric acid, the cavities around the beads serving to retain the acid to some degree. The acid has the effect of eating away or into the glass with which it comes in contact, thus materially weakening the same. Care should be taken, however, that the acid should be so diluted or be put on in such small quantities that it will not sat through the neck of the bottle. When the wires are sealed above the cork and the beads have been treated with the acid, as above described, any attempt to break the wires to get at the cork will pull or break off the beads which were weakened by the acid, and when the beads are broken the identity of the bottle or original package is destroyed.

Of course it will be understood that more than two wires can be attached by beads to the neck of the bottle and that ordinary wire fastenings'for the cork can be employed in addition to the fastening afforded by the attached wires. This additional fastening will perhaps be necessary in some cases, such as where the contents of the bottle tend to force A pocket, as sh own in Fig. 3, is formed the cork outwardly, in which event the Weakened beads would not have the strength in themselves to hold the cork in place,

We are aware that many minor changes in the construction, arrangement, and combination of the several parts of our device,as well as in the method of manufacture, can be made and substituted for those herein shown and 1 described without in the least departing from the nature and principle of our invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a bottle, a neck portion having projecting breakable beads thereon located below the end of the neck, and bands looped through the beads.

2. In' a bottle, a neck portion having elon- I gated hollow beads thereon and wires threaded through the beads.

3. A bottle having recesses in its neck por- Lion and beads located in the recesses, and wires or the like threaded through the beads, substantially as described.

4. In a bottle, a neck portion having breakable loops thereon located substantially on a plane with the surface of the neck and bands threaded through the loops.

' 5. In a bottle, a neck portion having indented or recessed sides, attaching projections located in the recesses their outer ends being substantially on the plane of the sur- 

